Doubt about page faults
I was curious to know how long a kernel compile would take on my new machine
and ran the command thus:
$ /usr/bin/time -v -o timings fakeroot make-kpkg kernel_image
The contents of the timings file from the above command is as follows:
$ cat timings
Command being timed: "fakeroot make-kpkg kernel_image"
User time (seconds): 166.96
System time (seconds): 31.28
Percent of CPU this job got: 79%
Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 4:10.26
Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
Average stack size (kbytes): 0
Average total size (kbytes): 0
Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 0
Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 1162554 <--- ?
Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 1021177 <--- ?
Voluntary context switches: 0
Involuntary context switches: 0
Swaps: 0
File system inputs: 0
File system outputs: 0
Socket messages sent: 0
Socket messages received: 0
Signals delivered: 0
Page size (bytes): 4096
Exit status: 0
Should I be worried about them? Sorry if this is trivial.
Regards,
--
Sridhar M.A.
The hope that springs eternal
Springs right up your behind.
-- Ian Drury, "This Is What We Find"
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